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Download Download International Journal of Islamic Business & Management; Vol. 2, No. 2; 2018 ISSN 2576-7674 E-ISSN 2576-7682 Impact Factor: 3.6 Published by Centre for Research on Islamic Banking & Finance and Business,USA Influence of Religiopoliticology and Duressed Womankind: Perspective Bangladesh Md. Kohinoor Hossain PhD Fellow Dept. of Islamic History & Culture Islamic University, Kushtia Bangladesh Cell Phone: +8801846789678 Email: [email protected] Received: December 5, 2018 Accepted: December 8, 2018 Online Published: December 17, 2018 Abstract The world is continuing at its own orbiting and fugitive for the adamboma or bomb of Adam in the womankind and mankind, who are classified into the four generations, and they are religious world, non- religious world, scientist world and humanitarian world but the people of Bangladesh are in the same kind like the world people to find out God and how they use religions, which is that have discussed by this paper. Bangladesh is a land of ice-aged. It has ancient beliefs, fear, and faiths, which are convinced on the inter-ward eyes, concise and understanding. The original people of her are Non-Aryan. Aryans come to here from the Persian and Middle East countries in the caravan of the rules of the chronology, many foreigners who come to Bengal, they are Greeks, Europeans, and Africans, all of them capture Bengali and they rule Bengal. They snatch away their own land, language, culture, economics, politics, beliefs, and love-nets. Here makes up all official religions, someone is downtrodden by them who remake apartheid in the society of Bengal, this is why they are de-throne from their own land, and they try to live as a freedom where they make up folk-religions. Bengalees learn the foreigners’ religions and they convert into these official religions. The rulers of Bengal rule them as following the religious doctrines only for getting votes when they need to play political power playing and that is why they use them. They use many styles of God theory. The Bengalees, they can how to use the orders of God that will be sought out in this paper. This paper seeks that how the cultic dynamics radicalization runs in Bangladesh and what is the best concept of God in Bangladesh. All people live in equal in the land of God in Bangladesh that empirically applies, for the globe. Keywords: Allah, Theology, Politicology 1. Introduction When Bangladesh accepts scriptural religions, none can answer this question and who come to settle in the Ban, Bans, Bang, Banga, Bangala, Bangalah, Bangala, Subah-i-Bangala, Bengal, East Pakistan and Bangladesh. None can answer the plain truth. All depend on the foreigners who would rule this place. Only Aryan and Muslim highly kept pressure to convert into scriptural religion and they succeed converting into Islam to live in this world and in this regard, researcher seeks the cultic dynamics radicalizations. 1.1 Research Problems Bangladesh is today at the facing-confront of religious extremists. Womankind does not get full assurance their freedom empowerment. All want to establish the entities of God. How they all want to use God by leading and ruling the state power? This paper tries discovering the novel theory of God in Bangladesh. 19 www.cribfb.com/journal/index.php/ijibm International Journal of Islamic Business & Management Vol. 2, No. 2; 2018 1.2 Aims and Objectives The researcher has a differentiated aims and objectives. At the order of God, all are equal. However, why here creates conflicting, killing, anarchy, injustice, oppressing, inhumanity and cruelty. The women cannot get their all kinds of rights. They have to keep in prison as the name of house as for their husband. These focus on the global people. God, Religions, and Political concepts of Bangladesh, which are, that has submitted to develop Bangladesh. This paper mentions the plain truth. 1.3 Research Methodology The researcher desires that all religions in the earth are humanitarian but why all are conflicting against other religious actors. Today total Europe, Middle East, America and South Asia are affected by the religious conflicting. In this regard, the author prefers descriptive and hypothesis method that will be submitted as for the conference paper and working paper. There he follows the international research accredited style where he will take references and bibliographies. This is why that for this type of article is not available to focus on for the theology portal. Primarily he has been inspired about this title paper. When the world is thinking, busy for inventing the new policy how to remove this fratricidal moment. He selects to discover this article. This paper will not devalue about the men, women, races, institutions and any other religions. This paper has been composed in simple and dynamical English language. It will only rediscover the historical plain truth. It will use a print theory. He tries to remake the data analyzing from the sources. There will be re-focused about the nomenclature of Bangladesh and God-ship. This paper will use as an empirical application for the world nations. 4. Discussion 4.1 Bangladeshlogy The name of Bangladesh, which is a kind of country when it starts, none can say correctly, undetermined number of foreigners dominates Bangladesh and they all capture this land to all prefer to establish their doctrines, philosophies, cultures, religions, and languages. Bangladesh has no ancient written history, what the foreign scholars and writers have composed. The people of Bangladesh have spent their days with reciting books and papers for thousands years after thousand years. This people awake from playing on bamboo flute, spending days with hookah smoking for six months and for comfortable with relaxing and the rest of the six months spend working to earn foods and money. [1] In the ways they keep in sleeping for years after thousands years with storytelling. The people, who live, lead, dominate, which areas where these are located. How are these areas? About 80,000 square miles broad spreading made by rivers washing silted plain boundaries land, which is Bangla. Its area is on the east side is Tipera and Lussai valley, on the north side is Shilang mountain and Nepal Tarai area; on the west side is Rajmahal and Chotonagpur mountain’s high valley and on the south side is the Bay of Bengal. [2] The word ‘Bang’ nation, which is colonized area, called as ‘Banga’ country. In addition, considering the nation is ‘Bang’, perhaps which, is a vast area that identified as ‘Bangal’. [3] There is a man whose name is ‘Ban or Bans or Bang’ and it is before the five thousands and five hundred years ago, who establishes a settling their living -hood. [4] The people and the land from Rajmahal to Aassam, from Nepal to the Bay of Bengal introduce as ‘Bangla and Bangali’. This land is in sub-states that are ‘Anga, Banga, Pundra, Summah, Rada, Harikel, Samatata and Sankanat. These sub-states are known as ‘Bangladesh’. [5] The surge that surrounds on the Bhagirathi and on the Padma and that is why that land is adjacent to the triangle area that creates as Delta or Badwip and finally this area flourishes as the ‘Banga’ area to ‘Bengal’. [6] The geographers acknowledge it as the geographical area. [7] According to the Thailand mythology: There is name in the sub-state continental India whose name is ‘Ban-Lang or Bang-Lang or Lak-Lang’ is a valiant hero of Bangalee who descends to the palace of the Thailand. He defeats the king of this land and he captures this land. He rules this country for many days. He provides his country’s nomenclature as ‘Bang- Lang’. The inhabitants of ‘Bang-Lang’ are known as ‘Ban or Bans or Vans or Bang’. The word ‘Ban or Bans or Bang’ is a Tibetan language. It means marshy and humid water-land. According to Mahabharat: “There is a king whose name is ‘Bang’ he rules that country and this country is renamed as ‘ Bangal’.” [8] The primitive Bangal or Bangla reproduces as Banga. According to the holy Koran and the holy Towrat is that there is a prophet or a messenger, who reveals from God. His name is Noah, as he knows as the second Adam. At the time of him is over-flooded by all over the world. All have died and damaged by it. There are only alive 85 people. He rules the earth for 950 years. He has three sons. The sons are Haam, Shaam and Yaafez. The son of Haam is Hind. The son of Hind is ‘Bang’ who settles his inhabitants in this land. This is why this land introduces as ‘Banga’.The generations of ‘Banga’ settle fully and forever in this land. This calls them as ‘Bangal’ or Bengal. At the primitive age, the name of Bangal is Bang. [9] The word ‘Bang’ comes from which adds with the language of Sanskrit that 20 www.cribfb.com/journal/index.php/ijibm International Journal of Islamic Business & Management Vol. 2, No. 2; 2018 is ’AL-racing’. ‘Bang’ is originated from ‘AL-adding ‘word into ‘Bangal’. [10] The author amazes that the word ‘Ang’ means the water-land and ‘Bans’ means water-land and ‘AL or AILSE’ means barrage. These three words make up of ‘Bangal’ such as ‘Bans or Bang +Ang+AL=Bangal’. At the time of history, there are many internationals, which come here for trading, looting, travelling, settling, collecting revenues, looking for foods, preaching their religions and doctrines, living forever and taking shelter. They provide its various names for centuries after centuries. The Greeks rename it as ‘Ganga’.
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